happy almost thanksgiving cub folks i'm having martin this is breaking the sets while thanksgiving isn't just a time for mass consumption it's also the time for the annual presidential turkey pardon that's right thanks to the generosity of obama two lucky birds were spared from the deep fryer today in fact of the course of his presidency obama's had the great privilege of saving the lives of ten of these adorable gobblers if you only cared this much about humans rotting away in cages across the nation so right now there are over three hundred thousand people in prison for drugs and guess how many nonviolent drug users obama's had the pleasure of pardoning a whopping eleven people has obama has almost pardon as many turkeys as he has drug

offenders well if you count the massive hormones injected into these little birds i guess the number stands at twenty one pardon living things which is a shame considering how bomb as a former user of marijuana and cocaine so how many people who has obama pardoned in total while the number stands at forty just for comparison at the same point ronald reagan's presidency he had already pardoned three hundred thirteen people and reagan was a horrible president so go with the program obama last time pardoning but that a paltry and more time pardoning persecuted prisoners. it's a. very hard to take. that back with the terror threat there.

to. sleep. sleep. sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep. sleep. all right guys we're fast approaching america's most disturbing holiday and no i'm not talking about thanksgiving i'm talking about the day after black friday is a day reserved first seemingly normal people to become mindless consumers zombies ready and willing to do whatever it takes to save a few bucks because nothing screams giving thanks for more than clubbing a stranger and stopping their face in as you stampede to a wal-mart that discounted clock radio in case you forget how bad it can get here's

a look back at the most disturbing human behavior from previous years. gunshots fights pepper spray occupy protests just shopping black friday turning violent today a wal-mart worker has died after the doors open for early morning sales about five am local time seconds after the doors opened something went dangerously wrong. about a dozen other people were and it's all knocked to the ground in its carry on a twenty eight degree a pregnant woman eight months pregnant. absolutely vile yes the special holiday has a very unique way of bringing out the very worst in people you know one of most peculiar aspects of this materialistic tradition is how gung ho people are to camped outside for days in the freezing cold just to be first in line for discounted junk and even though it's the coldest november in the last twenty five years it's not to turn people like this dude has been camping outside of best buy

in cleveland all week. like you make me do it because they like coming down we actually easily have thanksgiving dinner brought to the town. so we'll have a full spread in the town and i mean it's kind of my time with them. what a role model this guy should wind out of the year you know with thousands of people camping out and acting like wild animals where is a riot cops oh that's right they only pepper spray and shoot rubber bullets at people protesting consumerism not brainlessly indulging in it is apparently an acceptable for occupy activists to camp out on public sidewalks but it's perfectly fine as long as it's done to feed the materialistic culture of the discount and complex but guys there is a silver lining here the last few years has been growing disconnect discontent rather from employees at america's largest and worst pain corporation wal-mart and this year associates won't only be holding protests against the company's substandard working conditions but they're planning

a massive walk out on the busiest shopping day of the year wal-mart is so threatened in fact that a former executive from the corporation has launched a campaign called black wide day encouraging people to shop shop shop and not pay attention to those pesky protesters so holies please guys i implore you save your hard earned dollars and spend time with your families this friday but if you just can't pass up the opportunity to purchase gifts this week and bible from places like farmers' markets mom and pop stores and online artists or you can take a key. from wal-mart execs and shop til you drop just watch out for the rabbit zombie shopping stampede. the n.f.l. is known for many things concussions super bowl commercials and it's heavy

protection of game footage which is where the new media company aereo comes in recently the national football league joined a lawsuit along with the major corporate media giants against aereo for allowing their paid subscribers to stream and record sports games without the consent from the broadcasters sounds like an open and shut case but here's where it gets interesting n.f.l. is a nonprofit organization and taxpayers largely subsidize massive sports stadiums across the nation so should the public have some sort of ownership of the n.f.l. as product like they would any other tax funded and such as roads and public sidewalks break down the ins and outs of the n.f.l. racket parties making lopez thanks so much for coming on monday and break down exactly how the n.f.l. is corporate structure works because i think it's a little bit confusing it's very confusing and that's just because there's so many pieces so essentially there's something called an f l venture it oversees everything n.f.l. is an entity but when you use the word n.f.l. and you're talking about a league you're talking about the federal nonprofit kind of status that's dealing

with the league that just kind of oversees that the television broadcasts they oversee some of the rules and that was invented back in one nine hundred twenty s. when the teams kind of came together and said ok we need to have some kind of structure so that structure is the n.f.l. now is something that is interesting to note is that the n.f.l. as you mentioned doesn't pay tax it's a tax exempt status but the n.f.l. teams the n.f.l. ventures they all pay they all pay taxes and let's talk briefly about this and n.f.l. tax exempt status because as we know it's not all in c three non profits. registered but it's a five a one c. six what is that and what's the difference usually when you hear the word nonprofit you assume that it means charities that you're giving your money away to something that you get everything out of it so final one c three deals with charities that would be your make a wish foundation that would be your red cross things like that final one c six is something that covers a trade organization it covers chambers of commerce it covers things like that and

the whole purpose of the five a one c. six is for those groups trade associations and chambers of congress and real estate entities is to promote the industry as a whole so when we're talking about the n.f.l. promoting the industry as a whole we're talking about not the thirty two teams which pay dues into the n.f.l. we're talking about what paul as a whole so that's where some of the argument comes in is is the n.f.l. really supporting football as a whole or is it supporting the profit of those thirty two individual teams boys or the answer is pretty clear to me earlier you know does this for the whole sport but the n.f.l. doesn't they get away with that i guess by only paying attention to the leads a nurse answer that we have to kind of go back in history a little bit so in one thousand nine hundred sixty six the n.f.l. wanted to merge with the american football league that it was formally known as they fell so in order to do that they had to file an antitrust suit in order to be able to be exempt from antitrust laws they had to go to congress congress said yes

and then they also said well in order to be able to do that we'd also like to have a tax exempt status to represent everyone you know the interesting thing and just going back to the corporate structure of the n.f.l. is that the thirty two teams pay the n.f.l. league to come up with those rules to negotiate to do things like that right but because they pay about six million dollars annually to the n.f.l. it's considered a donation to a nonprofit so they're not taxed on that six million dollars annually each team isn't anyway so that's another interesting kind of sidebar to this whole situation with a tax there's very confusing and there's so many sad. and as we know on an university level usually coaches are the highest paid state employees but let's talk about the n.f.l. what kind of salary are we talking about for commissioner roger goodell well the one good benefit that everyone says across the board comes out from this one nine hundred sixty six law which allows a tax exempt status that we get to know that answer is also the same reason reportedly why two thousand and seven b.

didn't want to do that so roger goodell makes thirty million dollars a year or two million dollars a year it's gone up exponentially people thought before they found this out they thought he was making twenty million max but it's actually thirty million dollars now something that's really interesting to mention when you get into the nitty gritty tax code is that as a league the n.f.l. is actually losing money the n.f.l. into t.v. makes a revenue of nine billion dollars a year but the n.f.l. league loses about seventy seven million dollars a year so the interesting thing is if it did in fact choose to be a for profit status it still would be paying taxes and it wouldn't be a boon to the treasury or anything like that because you have to have a profit or revenue in order to be able to pay taxes and they don't have that that's crazy this is the slightly different issue that i mentioned in the introduction making but it's kind of one that perturbs me the most other that over the years in these publicly financed stadiums breakdown of how much money taxpayers

are really going into this well the tax exempt status is different because that is federal the stadiums the stadiums is a state issue no the states offer incentives in order to get those teams to stay so they'll say you don't have to pay property tax which a lot of teams don't pay property taxes they'll say oh we'll give you a zero percent interest rate on your loans they also offer to pay substantial amounts i'm talking seventy percent according to harvard university professor judith grant a law seventy percent of those funds for the stadiums which are upwards of one point six billion dollars these days. comes from taxpayers those stadium money that save money is only going up and the other interesting thing is that taxpayers also pay for the continuing costs the electricity the sewers restoration for instance when hurricane katrina happened taxpayers had already paid almost five hundred million dollars for the superdome they paid another four hundred forty seven million dollars for the restoration of it after katrina hit that was in the midst

of everyone else trying to get the money to pay for themselves so we're. so ties are paying for the maintenance on these cities i can't help but think about you know the chicago school closure the biggest school closure in chicago's history one hundred schools and of course at the same time they're opening this massive stadium their sports stadium and what happens is the community says no we do not want you to build this giant stadium and we do not want to put up and foot the bill for pretty much megan while it has history has shown time and time again these n.f.l. teams have left or they have threatened to leave just to give you some examples the minnesota vikings threaten to leave in two thousand and eleven the atlanta falcons threaten to leave this year the rams the chargers the list goes on now just to go back to that one nine hundred sixty six. trust exemption the really important thing is that it said that those teams have to stay in those states and there must be thirty two teams so how that part is happening is very questionable and no one

has the answer to it right now unbelievable issue thank you so much for breaking it down i know it's really complicated megan correspondent thank you coming up i'll speak with the executive director of greenpeace about the group's activism all over the world stick around. i think. everybody. should you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because

a free and open press is critical to our democracy check albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i would press seven we've been a high jinks trying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate and real discussion critical issues facing america to find ready to join the movement and welcome the big. city.

greenpeace is an organization that's internationally recognized for its direct action protests environmental advocacy and its fight against big oil but interestingly enough greenpeace is actually founded primarily in to stop the proliferation of nuclear energy lately the group has been it all over the news for its fight against drilling and the arctic but what the corporate media won't tell you is that the organization is also suing a national security agency and is the target of a lawsuit itself by a giant logging company in canada so to discuss these issues as well as the arctic thirty protesters i was joined earlier by the international director of greenpeace commune i do i started by asking him about. the seven million dollar lawsuit filed by reservoir against the organization. there's been a tendency by major corporations to engage in what are called slap suits which stands for strategic litigate against public participation and interesting the discomfort and huge is based in cubic did not bring the case in cubic because the

is and t. slap legislation which given scrupulous. geisha in which is aimed at silencing citizen participation and protests so years a company that is engaging in activities in endangered forests and is. conducting itself in a manner that it's not engaging in. constant that is needed but the regional first nations peoples and they have brought the section because we have publicly said that in gauged in activities that are damaging canada's burial forests and have not participated in a respectful relationship with the person nations communities involved. we would have hoped that rather than taking us to court that they would look at the substance of the issues that we have put on the table and to actually engage with

us something that we appeared to do but sadly this company has gone down the route of trying to fight it out in court we mean peace are not intimidated by there's another really amazing that you guys are involved in as part of electronic frontier foundation lawsuit against the u.s. government for its surveillance activities what is surveillance an environmental issue. well surveillance is a cross-cutting issue it is fundamentally opposed to democracy in the sense that when companies monitor and surveil the membership dart at pieces of greenpeace they can see who we are communicating with what we are communicating with when we are communicating and so on and this is a chilling effect. in the sense that it's a does cottage meant to people to want to create we associate with.

organizations of their choice that is the right to freedom of association freedom of assembly and freedom of expression are critical components of democracy and when those rights are. threatened then democracies threaten so therefore we know is it asian at noisy taishan in joining. this lawsuit against the national security agency the n.s.a. for the repeated surveillance that they engaged in not only against greenpeace but a range of other human rights and other. citizen groups in the united states let's talk about the article coming out what message was greenpeace trying to send by borning as oil rig and what's the current status of the activists in russia. well the arctic serves as a producer a term a condition of the planet it placing credibly important role in climate regulation

and furthermore. the only reason why we can even consider drilling there is because we have burned so much of oil coal and gas that has led to the arctic sea ice actually melting however if there was a school in this part of the world it would be incredibly difficult virtually impossible. and these no track record of any company in the world to clean up an oil spill in such icy conditions essentially the orld could be locked in the ice in the sea for more than six months causing devastating consequences now. as far as the article goes this particularly when we engage in protests which by the way i also participated last year we did exactly the same process protests at the same break with the same ship and in that case the russian coast guard was

there they observed us they saw that we were peaceful they allowed us to protest for about a week and no action was taken so we were taken aback that this time around because gas from has been claiming for a long time that they are bob stop drilling and they made that similar quick claim now so we felt that we needed to continue to keep public attention on what would be the first oil drilling operation in the arctic ocean. so for those reasons we continue to keep the peaceful protests that we did last year and the statement on the parties responded in of a different way and. and we were quite taken aback about the piracy charges which thankfully have been dropped we find that we're going to some charges just as disproportionate and right now activists have been moved from the mancs prison to st petersburg with twenty nine have been released and one colleague the first

one to appear before court who has denied being an extended till february in prison as the he will have an appeal and we are hoping that that appeal will be successful as a russian proverb that says the first pancake always comes out wrong and so cullen russell was the first person to appear in this round of pay of the baby adding so we hope that. there is absolutely no reason for him to remain you know everybody else has been released so we are quite confident that the appeals court in st petersburg will release col and russell then to kristen remains about what happens to the folks because right now they cannot leave russia and we have heard statements from the presidency that. folks will be allowed to leave it within ten days or so but we've got no formal confirmation yet as to how that will happen when

that will happen and so on as things go on the stand the charges of police going to some still stand and of course there has been in development just on friday when the united nations international tribunal on the last see ruled in favor of the dutch government and asked the russian government immediately release the crew and all to tea folks on board and again. even president putin's stated. commitment to international law that he expressed around the time of the u.s. plans to invade syria we are hopeful that there will be by the second of december when russia and the dutch government have to report back to the international tribunal that hopefully this matter could be brought to a close for by the russian federation complying with the ruling of the international tribunal why do you think that the corporate media attention has only

been on the arctic thirty really and i can remember them talking really about green conspiring years and years and all this. we know that in the united states we have a very narrow media ownership and that is one of the reasons why us media diversity is so limited. we of course try to get all the different. activities that we're engaged in to the media but somehow it seems most of the media tend to cover the more visual images of protests and so on because you know one of the things that people find shocking is that of all the work the increase does less than twenty percent of our work is actually peaceful actions and those that will work its scientific research lobbying advocacy meeting with c.e.o.'s and other business leaders trying to influence our

governance meeting with them in gauging with them in dialogue and so on but history shows that when humanity as you know i'm trying to do a major challenge. i would it was slavery civil rights in the united states colonialism woman's right to vote and so on those struggles only went forward when decent men and women stood up and said enough is enough and no more we prepared to put our lives on the line here to risk imprisonment if necessary so will obviously we would prefer not to have to do that but when he is such a high level of cognitive dissonance on the part of our political and business leaders we feel that we do not have a moral choice but to you know take those risks no i should say that the us are good reasons why the media do not. cover some of those actions they tell

a very uncomfortable stories right now for example in the united states we have. you know a suing. to not american companies and to not american public relations agencies for spying on us intensively in. early. two thousand and one on let's now all of these things are newsworthy i would argue why should a voluntary group of citizens concerned about environmental and social justice. be monitored in this way right it's not a good use of taxpayer money it's done without the consent of the american people it's done without proper compliance with u.s. law but. it would appear that the media take a view that we'd rather respond to our paymasters in the interests

rather than to present to the public important historical i mean it's it's quite a historical thing to have a organization that greenpeace. take two big energy companies to court for spying i just wanted to sum this up here to talk about what can we do here in the u.s. to push for real sustainability real environmental protection here because the democratic party has completely sold out to the same corporate interests as the republicans without a minute left. the american people need to understand that what is at stake here is not only all our children and grandchildren's futures but what is also at stake is democracy itself today the united states can be described as the best democracy money can buy and if you look at which money buys the democracy it's disproportionately oil coal gas nuclear and other.

polluting industries and when you have for every member of congress between three and eight full time lobbyists who are paid by the oil coal and gas companies then you know that in fact democracy is severely compromised but the united states citizens need to understand that the world wants them to join with us to move to an energy revolution that meets so imaging needs on the one hand but also generates millions of jobs in the new green intrusive economy kermie now executive director of greenpeace international amazin a pleasure having on thank you very much for having us. this is a whole extended interview with me and check out our youtube channel intern dot com slash breaking and sad and you guys that's it for our show tonight i will have a great great great turkey day i'll see you right back here on monday to break the set all over again all week.

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